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The November nominations are in! While a few titles garnered more consensus, by and large, the field is still open and full of some surprises.

From the September/October 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

From the September/October 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

In his latest masterful work of narrative nonfiction, Sheinkin’s (Most Dangerous, rev. 9/15; Fallout, rev. 11/21) tale of suspense...

Corazon hopes The Spirit Glass, an enchanted doorway in her house, will finally allow her own magical gift to be revealed, but it turns out she has a lot of work to do and danger to navigate first.

In Those Pink Mountain Nights, a pizza place in an Albertan ski resort town is the locus for an intense novel about friendship, romance, and betrayal.

On Abeni’s twelfth birthday, a witch enters her village to give a grave warning: an evil is coming, and it’s too late to run. The adults prepare for...

Scot Smith considers Aaron Beckers innovative wordless picture book, The Tree and the River.

A fairly standard retelling changes course quickly when Cinderella storms out of the ball (“What a disaster!”) declaring that the prince is a snob...

Writer and librarian Vaunda Micheaux Nelson has made something of a specialty of bringing hitherto under-recognized African American heroes into prominence. In Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality, Nelson and illustrator Alex Bostic celebrate three very young heroes — first graders — in the fight to desegregate a New Orleans public school in 1960.